TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Tossing and turning more as you age? You’re not alone — and experts think they know why. Dr. Shelby Harris, a sleep psychologist in White Plains, N.Y., explained that stress, sleep structure and hormonal changes can impact sleep as people age. “As weContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Race plays a role in whether a child is quickly and accurately diagnosed with asthma, a new study suggests. Outdated and flawed studies previously led to the belief that white children had “naturally higher” lung function compared to other races, researchers said. DiagnosticContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Continuous blood glucose monitors have been promoted as potentially life-changing for people with diabetes — allowing real-time updates on blood sugar levels without the need for repeated finger pricks. But a new small-scale study suggests these devices might not be as accurate asContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy tend to suffer a longer-lasting decline in their physical health, compared to women who receive hormone therapy or other cancer treatments. Chemotherapy patients reported a physical decline that extended more than two years after their diagnosis withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Yelling. Taunts. Insults. Harsh words. Physical violence. About 1 in 5 college athletes receive such abuse from their coaches, researchers report. Overall, nearly 19% of more than 3,300 athletes on National College Athletic Association (NCAA) teams said they’d experienced abusive supervision from theirContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More than half of adults and a third of children and teens worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, a comprehensive global analysis has concluded. Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades,Continue Reading
Newly appointed health secretary believes processing the comments under the Richardson Waiver puts too heavy a burden on the departmentContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Francis Collins, the famed geneticist who led the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 12 years and helped guide the U.S. through the COVID pandemic, has stepped down. Collins, who’s 74, announced his retirement over the weekend, praising the NIH staff inContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As electric vehicles (EVs) become more common on roads, they bring new health concerns for firefighters and the community, new research shows. Researchers at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center found that EV fires expose firefighters, vehicle owners and community residentsContinue Reading
MONDAY, March, 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North Carolina. The procedure became possible after 11-year-old Journi Kelly, from Wilson, N.C., received aContinue Reading